@ProPublica This is the point in the AP #environmental science curriculum when we cover global change including the greenhouse effect and #climatechange - We analyze the Keeling data and generate the Keeling Curve which is the change in atmospheric #CO2 over time. This is data that the #fossilfuel industry does not want collected. I'm wondering where the $$ comes from for this effort. What's happening with data collection is so short-sighted and funked up. #politics
Scientists Say They Can Calculate the Cost of Oil Giants' Role In Global Warming
#climate #environment #fossilfuel
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/04/23/2238225/scientists-say-they-can-calculate-the-cost-of-oil-giants-role-in-global-warming
Fossil fuel companies 'poisoned the well' of public debate with climate disinformation https://phys.org/news/2025-04-fossil-fuel-companies-poisoned-debate.html
Day 26 cont 
“Opposition Leader #PeterDutton’s “Australian #gas for Australians” scheme (‘cost impost as a “charge” or “incentive” for producers to flood the east coast market with cheaper gas ‘) risks violating the #Constitution and provoking an expensive #HighCourt battle with #FossilFuel giants as prominent legal experts warn the #CoalitionPolicy appears to be a discriminatory tax regime.”
#AusPol / #LNP / #Liberal / #National / #Energy <https://archive.md/wxwWm> / <https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/looks-and-smells-like-a-tax-dutton-s-gas-plan-flagged-as-unconstitutional-20250416-p5ls5w.html> (paywall)
The government of the Netherlands is planning to reintroduce half a billion euros of #fossilfuel subsidies in order to lower the energy bill for companies.
Yes, now some companies will leave the country if other countries offer lower energy prices. No, this will not secure jobs in the long term. Pouring money in a dead-end path and not investing in change will kill our future economic competitiveness (oh, and us...).
«However, critics, including the Solar Energy Industries Association trade group, have said tariffs would harm US solar producers because they would raise prices on the imported cells that are assembled into panels at American factories.»
Consider the possibility that hurting domestic industry is just as much a goal as hurting imports, especially if you can do it under cover of the fog of trade war.
It cannot be discounted as a driving theory that Putin's useful idiot and disciple wants to build the US back into a petrostate, killing the solar industry entirely. (That people give him any benefit of the doubt on this troubles me. I see no evidence he wants green anything.)
@MorpheusB massive rebates for #fossilfuel industry which is just a little less then health, can’t be touched though can it. He really is gross.
For the #FossilFuel industry it's better if we remain ignorant of how to help ourselves.
"This study informs how research can more effectively engage CBOs in climate adaptation studies, which, in turn, can contribute to building plans and systems that are better equipped to build resilience to compound extreme events...
This work was supported through a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NA21OAR4310239)."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096325000075?dgcid=rss_sd_all
I guess anywhere where the #FossilFuel funded rightwing parties have a foothold, lies will be spread about renewable technology. I would have assumed/hoped Germans were less susceptible to these lies than the British though.
‘The #BBC presenter Evan Davis has been told he can no longer host a podcast about heat pumps due to the corporation’s concerns that discussing the technology risks “treading on areas of public controversy”’
Controversial to #FossilFuel industry and #Reform voters who are trying to kneecap anything that will help us avert #ClimateBreakdown.
#HeatPumps are NOT controversial outside UK.
Should be a crime against humanity and every OilCo executive should be tried in the Hague and spend the rest of their life in a cage.
"A decades-long campaign of misinformation by the #fossilfuel industry is a key reason the climate majority has been suppressed”
‘The existence of a silent #climate majority across the planet is supported by several separate analyses.
Other studies demonstrate a clear global appetite for action, from citizens of rich nations strongly supporting financial support for poorer vulnerable countries and even those in petrostates backing a phase-out of coal, oil and gas.
A decades-long campaign of misinformation by the #fossilfuel industry is a key reason the climate majority has been suppressed, researchers said.’
Half of world’s #CO2 #emissions come from 36 #fossilfuel firms
Report found that 36 major fossil fuel companies, including #SaudiAramco, #Coal #India, #ExxonMobil, #Shell and numerous Chinese companies, produced coal, oil and gas responsible for more than 20bn tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2023.
Global emissions must fall by 45% by 2030 if the world is to have a good chance of limiting temperature rise to 1.5C
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/half-of-worlds-co2-emissions-come-from-36-fossil-fuel-firms-study-shows
#climatechange #climatecrisis #climate
By comparison the client industry (#FossilFuel) has about $244B annual turnover in US.
Visualize graphically how cheaply Trump sold us down the river. 75M vs. 244B. What does that look like, as a bar chart?
Remember this on May 1. Turn out. Show up. Book it.
Ed Miliband is right. We all need to push back on the climate lies from the right and their #FossilFuel backers.
I was looking at a can of cat food this morning and wondering when the ingredients label will be gone, along with labeling of processed human food that at least lets us inform ourselves of what we're eating and feeding our families.
You work in a coal mine and you take your chances, which all wind up the same.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/trump-coal-mining-health-cuts
#Healthcare #Coal #FossilFuel #Deregulation #Capitalism
Crafty.
Send the loudest possible signal to investors considering #EnergyModernization projects.
"See what we just did? You have -zero- certainty and -massive- risk, even for a proven technology."
#FossilFuel incumbents bought this for chump change.
https://electrek.co/2025/04/17/trump-admin-ny-offshore-wind-mid-build/
BP dropped its green pledges and turned back to oil. Now the price of crude has collapsed https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/13/bp-dropped-its-green-pledges-and-turned-back-to-oil-now-the-price-of-crude-has-collapsed
Michigan Democrats join Republicans to advance clean energy carveout for U.P. https://www.byteseu.com/927230/ #Canada #ClimateChange #Enbridge #Energy #FossilFuel #LakeMichigan #MackinacBridge #MackinawCity #oil #OilAndGas #pipeline #St.Ignace #StraitsOfMackinac #tunnel #UpperPeninsula
Environmental and Climate change issues are low on the priority list for the candidates most likely to be the next Prime Minister of Canada. "The two candidates do offer something different. With Poilievre, we reach 2 C or 3 C as quickly as possible. With Carney, we buy some time to alert Canadians to a climate disaster before it actually hits us." Neither scenario inspires optimism. #election2025 #climatechange #fossilfuel #renewable https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/04/15/Making-Sense-Carneys-Policy/ @thetyee
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